Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1926-1981 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
5 volumes
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
The premises were first mentioned in a lease from Charles William Bury to John Shaw in 1790. It became a brewery in 1805 when Richard Deverell acquired the property. The ownership changed again, i.e. to George Wilkinson, a baker, in the 1850s.
Michael McGinn (1879-1973) bought the premises in 1920 from the widow Brophy under whose ownership a pub was run by the Keeney family. McGinn was from Mountmellick and managed a D. E. Williams grocery shop there before he bought the pub in Tullamore. He continued the pub trade and also operated a bakery and a grocery on the premises. The licence was transferred in 1967 to his son Philip McGinn who renovated the pub in 1978 and changed the grocery part to an off-licence in 1980.
Repository
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Account book, customer a/c, retail and grocery ledgers of McGinn's Bakery, Tullamore.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Fair. Some bindings are damaged, but there is little textual loss.